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[reparator]

Who: CERES & you
When: IC: 10/04 | OOC: 11/15
Where: ViViD & McCERES
What: Intro Log
Rating/Warning: PG-13 | slightly nsfw

//event005.EXE Learning is Fundamental! Let's play CERESLearn ViViD's usual worlds are unfortunately down for maintenance. While CERES' programmers work on getting it back up and running, all new entrees this round will be going through a different level than usual. Only a single world is accessible at the moment, a simple one entitled 'CERESLearn.' "What the $%@& is this?" you must be thinking. Well, it's simple! It's a study program, of course! CERES' advanced AI technology is here to make sure you learn and that you learn sexily. Whether or not you pay attention to the actual content is up to you, the player. Please enjoy it while it lasts. They're here to teach you a variety of subjects and also to make you feel vaguely uncomfortable all over. New arrivals and those logging into ViViD will first find themselves in a classroom with a new operator greeting them rather than Vidia. "Greetings and welcome to Cerealia! It's nice of you to join us at last. As you can see, we're just about to get started! Here are the instructions: ♥ Choose your subject of choice. They include things like medicine, math, CERES economics, CERES history, fun facts about Julius, engineering, and science! ♥ Choose your tutor. You can hire Astor, Hilda, or UN-Zippy ♥ They'll teach you slowly, deliberately, sensually. Then after that, they'll drill you hard and without stopping. ♥ Just when you think you've had enough, they'll quiz you all over until you're sweating and panting. ♥ For those of you who pass, you'll be welcomed well into Cerealia and be given a free voucher for a McCERES Mildly Content meal. Please enjoy!"

//SCENARIOS.EXE PHASE I [ xxxx ] Once you choose your lesson and your tutor, you will be transported to a classroom where you and a few other players who decide to choose the same lesson will sit with your tutor after school, getting knowledge taught to you by someone who seems more intent on learning what's under your clothes than filling your head with knowledge. They will be awkwardly stretching, dropping pencils by 'accident' on the floor, and bending down slowly to pick them up. Certain things might be spilling out of their clothes. Awkward things. They will breathe down your neck and make sure you are well-versed in their anatomy by the end of the lesson. Fortunately, it won't last long as their bodies start to flicker erratically. PHASE II [ xxxx ] Just as things begin to escalate, the flickering will grow intense until your tutor will start to morph before your eyes. What takes their place is something that is anything but friendly. And yes, it will continue to breathe down your neck and speak in a sweet, soft, alluring voice while reaching out with its 'hands' to try and touch you. This will be your cue to run through the halls of the school while That Thing chases you in every single direction imaginable. There will be others joining you as everyone starts bolting out of their classrooms. PHASE III [ xxxx ] Feeling tired already? Well, don't stop and rest now! For those who successfully murder their own tutor, they will get their food voucher and a lovely welcome into CERES. You've officially passed! Everyone will be allowed to mingle around the game room in the CERES Research Tower before being directed into McCERES just across the street. For those who were already in the colony, you will also receive a voucher and directions to McCERES at the end of the game in case you want to go meet up with the newcomers there or just eat some artery-killing fast food. PHASE IV [ xxxx ] For those who get eaten by That Thing or don't pass their quizzes and upset their tutors, they will be forced to endure the Price of Failure. This means being sent to the gym with the other 'failures' to endure a painfully slow and erotic striptease by UN-Zippy. Once that is over, they will then be logged out and allowed to have their complimentary McCERES voucher. BONUS [ whyo'clock ] Congratulations on surviving CERESLearn! Here's your complimentary voucher for a free Mildly Content Meal at McCERES. This month's special is also the McKnight Burger. Characters are immediately invited to take a load off and enjoy some good ol' fashion fast food of questionable origin. Those who decide to order and eat here will also get a special toy included inside their Mildly Content Meals. [ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with trigger-y or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE Welcome to CEREALIA's latest intro post. For your convenience, we have compiled a post detailing everyone's usual arrival experience (which is not entirely applicable this round for reasons stated above^) and a FAQ that should explain everything in more detail. Please read them thoroughly before playing. Thank you!

Comments

[lionly]

[IT'S ALL RIGHT OZ just tell him you're some kind of bunny thing later it'll all make sense yeah]

You guys sure make a nice big target...!

[So even as that bug launches at him, he jumps back, pulling back his longsword and thrusting it forward, driving it right into its head. There's even more bugblood now... And Elza twists the sword AND OFF WITH ITS HEAD. I won't describe it in gory detail but there is a very loud splat and quite a mess pls watch where you step, Oz.]

[immobileyes]

Then you have to be more careful... okay?

[ or she'll glare at you. ]

[topscores]

No, I'm not! Totally not!

[Totally is. But he's not looking at her chest anymore at least...!]

[topscores]

They'll probably be fine.

[What an asshole...]

I have people I need to look for.

[Because they've got to be here too, okay!]

[flaredo]

Such a bad liar, too!

[ at least she doesn't look ready to kill him. ]

[flaredo]

[ Did you say something, she's chinhanding at your ears. ]

I never get over how cute that is...

[topscores]

[Traumatic turned lives unite...or something...

Oh god old women...but he already accepted this, so he can deal with it. Probably. At least he'll probably remember those directions.]

Got it. Anything else I should know before you send me off?

[Just in case!!]

1/2

[topscores]

I had it until you grabbed me!

[GOD STOP SHAKING HIM. But he'll forcibly push Rin away at this point, because there's no way he's going to get eaten by a giant bug.]

I'm waiting for you to stop grabbing me!

[topscores]

[He doesn't give Rin much time to react this time though, before he turns and snaps. The next thing Rin will likely see, for a moment, is Nice standing on top of a fallen monster before snapping again. The next time he'll most likely be seen is on top of another fallen monster, and he squats down on it, one hand on his headphones and the other poking it in the head.]

Hey, maybe you should take one of those desks and whack them to make sure they're dead. You can do that, right?

[deontology]

...Yes, that is correct.

[He hears the unspoken and agrees with it. If it's not, then they're really just pawns for whatever nonsense they're doing.]

You seem to have a solid grasp on the situation. Do you have further questions?

[puerilely]

[ It wasn't a very strong explosion - or rather, not a big enough one, since Shuu doesn't want to end the fun too quickly. It's enough to stop the bug in its tracks for a moment, a large hole in it that's just been blasted clean out, but it's still roaring and going.

And Shuu? Well, he seems every bit of a Cheshire Cat, sitting there and grinning from ear to ear as he's perched on top of one of the school desks. ]

Hmm, what do you think it is? [ He tilts his head to the side a little, hair accessories ringing and jingling as they move. ] I'm a demon, it'd be weird if I couldn't at least do this much, ri-ght?

[ Are you really trying to have casual conversation over the sound of monsterly yelling, Shuu.. ]

[projections]

I'm not a ninja, I'm a magus. I can't do ninja skills that's beyond me.

Just focus on teaching me hand-to-hand combat for now.

busts in late like batman ..HIATUS KILLED ME IM SORRY

[projections]

I've got it. Or at least I think I do. There's so much you need to wrap your head around.

I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out with time. Isn't that how it always works?

[harepiece]

[Oz standing there sweating rapidly like AH YES I TOO AM A RABBIT.....

Good lord though Oz is definitely watching his step, and also watching in vaguely fascinated disgust as Elza does his Elza thing over there. Why do bugs have so much blood?? WHY DO THESE BUGS IN PARTICULAR HAVE SO MUCH BLOOD he is so distressed about this!!]

Oh— Be careful!

[A helpful shout from a helpful nerd as the legless bug wonder goes in for a FLAILING FINAL ATTACK.]

[changeably]

[That's okay, ViViD deaths don't count as real deaths, anyway!]

Of course! Why would I stay and put myself in further danger?

[He does not want to be bug food, and he's no hero. He's totally going to bail.]

[abovedogs]

[ Why should he try when time alone will confirm the truth of those statements? Kazama merely shrugged, pleased (at least) that the older man recognized him even if it was just the clan name. ]

It's hardly practiced. [ n o p e, just an assumed pejorative ] But I'm glad you understand all the same. Especially considering your clan isn't doing so well in my age.

[ yeah, you get that Shuu! Kaoru kills them all. Maybe you should put that grudgeholding to good use on someone else. ]

[harepiece]

[LOOK he's just checking because like 99% of the people he knows would totally stick around to be a hero. Dumb shonens...]

Just wondering! Let's get out of this place, then.

[He's already done about as much clearing and searching as he can manage, anyway. ...And if he does get the dumb shonen urge to jump back in - well, he knows the way out now!]

[pure_confidence]

[ she raised an eyebrow (both of them) now that Demios was gone and chided herself silently for the surprise. This was VIVID after all. Such things were not entirely uncommon. ]

It's Peggy Carter and welcome to CERES, Mr. Nightray. Although I suppose I should wait to say so once we've left this place.

[ she paused just outside a door ]

Ah! I do believe I've found a stairwell.

[ although whether it lead to the true exit or not remained to be seen. It was a start at least. ]

[pure_confidence]

[ Peggy nodded, a little dazed, but recovering with all the experience of a well and truly seasoned soldier. Grasping Mary's hand, she clambered to her feet and then pushed her back where the came from. ]

Yes, I'm perfectly fine. It's not the first time I've had a door thrown open in my face after all. You weren't hit, were you?

[ Pausing for but a second behind Mary, Peggy surreptitiously slipped her gun out from where it'd been tucked into a garter beneath her skirt and palmed it, keeping an eye on the bug still trying to cram it's way through the door behind them. What it was, Peggy couldn't say, specifically, but she didn't think bullets would do too much damage, unfortunately.

Caterpillars, in particular, were notorious for living despite all the odds. ]

[pure_confidence]

[ Peggy stifled a smile and blithely continued walking as America looked on. ]

1943, of course, although I suppose I could have forgiven you for saying 1944. It was practically the new year.

[ she paused then herself, looking back over her shoulder. ]

Does that surprise you?

[ she can't help the teasing, but honestly. Couldn't CERES give them the rundown ahead of time? Explaining time anomalies was becoming old hat not really ]

[immobileyes]

[ She'll pick up the pace, making sure Peggy's at least staying close. Let's not lose our new friend to the creepy bug lady-- ]

No, I'm fine-- but I don't think we should let it hit us anymore.

[pure_confidence]

[ my oh my, getting cut off right when the conversation was getting heated... ]

Thank you, Misaki.

[ and thank you for roll call. Smiling, Peggy turned back to Hilda (and wasn't she at least a little bit pouting at Yata's sudden and abrupt move to open the window) and then gestured back up to the front of the class. ]

Shouldn't we continue on with the lesson? I believe what you were discussing something rather interesting just a moment ago and look, the rest of the class is rather eager to hear it themselves.

[ at least, anyway, there were a few people who seemed to enjoy the striptease as they gave a sudden cheer and a catcall at Hilda's more then ample bosom practically popping out of her unbuttoned shirt. Thank goodness for distractions! ]

[pure_confidence]

[ Peggy exhaled slowly, relaxing a little knowing that Mary was quite well. ]

I'm glad, and while I'm not particularly fond of being bug-handled, we do need to handle that bug.

[ she paused ]

I don't suppose you happen to have any bright ideas, do you?

[ although Peggy's working on it and a glimpse of a fire hose case just ahead of them is certainly giving Peggy something to think about. A good, strong hose could be just the thing. ]

[sewayaku]

None that I can think of. Thank you for your help, sir.

[ he says, with some air of finality - then seems to realize something, a small smile appearing on his formerly-solemn face. ]

Actually, just one thing. Could I have your name?

[sewayaku]

... Excuse me?

[ are you talking about the phone... that's not cute!!

except no, it's pretty obvious she's talking about his ears, and he's... not sure how to react, so that'll do for now. ]